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CHERRY WINE
4 Ib. red cherries, preferably cooking cherries and
if possible containing some morellos
1 gallon water
Campden tablet
6 oz. chopped raisins
3 1/4 Ib. Demerara sugar
Pectozyme
Nutrient
Madeira yeast
Stalk and wash the cherries, pour boiling Water on to
them and when cool mash the fruit and if possible remove the stones. Add
the chopped raisins, the juice of a large lemon, a teaspoonful of
pectozyme and one Campden tablet Next day stir in the Madeira yeast and
nutrient and ferment for five days, then strain and press. Stir in 2 1/2
lb. sugar and continue the fermentation. Add the remaining three doses
of 4 oz. sugar each time the S.G. falls below 1.010. Rack and mature in
the usual way.
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